Who the fuck decided these were /mu/‘s core songs? Save for Crimson King, this shit sucks.
>>121546791>hating loveless
>>121546791>hating itaots
The original idea behind /mu/core was that the albums were essentials that you needed to listen to before really posting, similar to those "before you ask /a/ for a recommendation, watch these" images that existed around the same time. It was there to provide a foundational ground for conversation, where it could be assumed that if you were posting on /mu/ you'd heard these albums, and as such could use them as reference points for discussion. They were never meant to be "the best albums ever" and the fact that the rest of the internet started to treat them as such is a similar misconstruing to the recent adoption of "la creatura" by the rest of the internet to describe monsters despite its overtly racist origins here.
>>121546791hating loveless is just historically illiterate
>>121546846What does this mean?
>>121546824>>121546846For me? It's Loveless, sans "Touched"
>>121546885>For me? It's Loveless, sans "Touched"
>>121546791you weren't here, so don't bother
>>121546913Why do they always make this youtube face?
>>121546913>>121546942holy newfag
>>121546824>>121546846>>121546885It’s a bunch of distorted noise with shitty songwriting. It’s no different than putting a white noise in a microwave. I’m so grateful shoegaze was able to evolve past this.
>>121546836This one wasn’t necessarily bad, it was just mediocre. Don’t know why out of all albums out there, THIS one was so praised here.
>>121547030I know you're obbiously trolling, but get your hearing checked.
>>121547059There’s a way to make good distorted music, and picrel is a good example of it. Loveless just isn’t it.
>>121546791>no fantano grips>no $wan$>no stgstv poopoo peepee tranny shiteah, the good old days
>>121547099now i know you're trolling. deathconsciousness literally sounds like that cause they lost the master files and had to use compressed mp3s. it barely works and to the extent it does it's a fortunate accident
>>121547099That album sucks. It sounds like lofi balding soillenial moaning over a bunch of chunky riffs distorted for no reason. Not to mention the terrible fucking drum machine.
>>121546845This post is way too oldfaggy and sensible for /mu/ in 2020+4
>>121547137>>121547139And yet it is and will always be better than Loveless.
>>121546845Hit the nail on the head but this is modern /mu/, notable that this post was ignored to get into some fight about loveless since shitflinging is all anyone seems to care about on this website now.
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>NMHNot very good.>MBVNever heard it. Been on /mu/ for 15 years, btw.>Radiohead Amazing albums.>KCGreat.>MPPLove AnCo, but MPP is half top tier and half meh/shitty.>KanyeSucks.
>>121546824I don't hate it but I'm completely indifferent to it. It has a sort of fast food quality to it. Good at first, but does not hold up over time while never degrading into full on trash.
>>121547332>Never heard it. Been on /mu/ for 15 years, btw.
>>121547264Name one remarkable thing about the album. To me it’s just some low quality post-punk wannabe record made by some talentless faggots who wanted to be edgy.
>>121546791get out. get the fuck out of herealso these became /mu/core around 2010 or before even, and were relevant to that time. AnCo MPP doesn't sound revolutionary now, but at the time it was really out there, exciting, and different. I can't speak to Kanye because he's not my favorite. King Crimson I'd maybe try another one of their records first before Court of the Crimson King as that one lays the prog thing on pretty thick, though I do like it a lot. Kid A and OK Computer need no explanation, they're great albums. Loveless I didn't like when I was younger at all, but I've come to appreciate it. It's still not something I listen to for fun, but I really like shoegaze bands who have been influenced by them.NMH's Aeroplane over the Sea is a masterpiece and you didn't listen to it, you heard 2 seconds of grating vocals about Jesus and went back to scrolling TikTok. Listen to the whole thing 3 times and you'll understand. In the early 2010s that was equivalent to the bible for /mu/seriously don't enjoy sounding or feeling like a grumpy old man here, but take a little time to listen to some stuff you're uncomfortable with - get into the entry level albums from those artists because some of those are less accessible. what happened to us, we used to listen to harsh noise and Spirit They've Gone and now we're too impatient to see the merits in the /mu/core essentials list? oh i misread your entire post, i didn't see that you liked Crimson King. I agree that's a bitchin record and is probably the best one on that list. I also love Aeroplane but I recognize that it's not for everyone and can sound grating. AnCo's MPP used to be fun to listen to straight through like a trip but it's lost its luster for me - Radiohead are really good on a handful of songs and otherwise are not really interesting to mefinally to answer your question: we did. when the original /mu/tants congregated they declared these to be the essentials. /mu/core really meant '/mu/tant music'
>>121547332There is no way you haven't listened to MBV
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>>121547385>at the time it was really out there, exciting, and different>NMH's Aeroplane over the Sea is a masterpiece >when the original /mu/tants congregated
>>121547385contd brieflyi was on /mu/ 2010-2014 or whatever when this stuff was being created and compiled. we ('/mu/tants') would meet up outside the site ('4chinz') on video chat and shoot the shit, there were singalongs. a secondary function of this kind of /mu/core list is that we used to use them as easy songs that everyone could sing along to, like most of us would know King of Carrot Flowers and some of the groups would do singalongs like that. most people had a couple subgenres that were their favorite, and hating the /mu/core essentials was actually sort of normal and encouraged at a point; shortly after they became 'essential', they became seen as 'pleb', and people looked for deeper and deeper cuts as opposed to the essentials, which were seen as 'entry-level'. basically it started out as just having fun with quirky indie-ish or adjacent music that could form a basic canon for singalongs and discussions, then the backlash happened which smacked of hipster obscurantism, now the return and they are immortalized as the greats when really they were never meant to represent the greatest albums of all time, just the 'core', as in '/mu/core' albums any /mu/tant was expected to have listened to at least once so they could consider themselves educated; like a GED or high school.
>>121547125>no stgstv poopoo peepee tranny shitewhat the fuck are you talking about. a better, earlier album by the same artist is tranny shit? get a grip
>>121547442it's all true. you new here, or even older?there's no accounting for taste, really
>>121547377>To me it’s just some low quality post-punk wannabe record made by some talentless faggots who wanted to be edgy.So it's a post punk album then?
>>121546845You are correct. And I think some of the essentials charts even have a similar explanation written out. But still, nu-/mu/ remains too retarded to understand this or even much of anything, really.
>>121546791That's the musical taste of sad middle-aged millennials.Luckily zoomers run this place now and it's all K-pop and Boomer Rock.
>>121547385You seemed to completely change your post around the end, which seems awkward but fine I guess. Since you especially loved ITAOTS, I’ll just say that I was a bit too harsh in my post. It’s not necessarily a bad album, it’s just mediocre to me and I don’t get why it’s so loved and praised on this board.
>>121547571No, you fucking moron. They mixed (bad) electronic sounds with basic guitar chords, resembling an attempt to emulate actual good bands like Joy Division.
>>121547154People larp about 4chan from 10+ years ago all the time and that post is no exception.
>>121547759Ah yes, so it's a post punk album
>>121546791>some retarded zoomer fuck off you cultureless faggot you zoomers cannot create or curate anythingall you know how to do is unsuccessfully denigrate the past You will never have anythingEnjoy stumbling around aimlessly in these ruins, confused and angered by what surrounds you niggerfaggot
>>121547807it's an unremarkable post-punk album with whiny vocals and sophomoric, overwrought lyrics that people got memed into thinking were actually deep
>>121547808is there ever going to be a music space like this again? probably not, right?
>>121547807No, dumbass.
>>121546845I used to browse Tumblr and the very same albums were discussed there back in the day./mu/ core It's really entry level stuff. They are albums any music enthusiast would know about.
>>121547851I see you say no but I think you mean yes and that you're a homosexual
>>121547850Every weekend at my house, bud. Come on over
>>121546791rage bait alert
>>121547893Are you serious?
>>121547808What's Elliott Smith doing there?
>>121547875>/mu/ core It's really entry level stuff. They are albums any music enthusiast would know about.Yes, that's literally the point.
>>121547926Yeah but what I meant is that people were discussing the same albums on different websites.
>>121547972Yeah, that is also to be expected.
>>121547891And I personally would think that you’re an obese neckbeard with shit taste.
>>121547808Rizzless boomer mad cuz he can't pay the fanum tax. No cap.
>>121548049Oh I think Loveless sucks, but also that you're a whining little pussy
>>121546791>Neutral Milk HotelBoth an overrated and overhated band, pretty great album>LovelessNever cared about it>radioheadI enjoy them but not a whole lot>King CrimsonBiased as I love that band, their 69-74 run is fantastic>MPPThere's like 6 better albums from Anco>KanyeI don't care about rap much so I don't really know what to say about it
>>121548227thrilling post my man
>>121548227Spirit is the best ANCO album and I never had to pretend it wasn't
>>121546791king crimson and radiohead are boring, the others are good
>>121548631spirit is on par with their greats but isn't the best. that'd be sung tongs
>it.......le sucks!
>>121546791not enough gook-pop for you, zoomie?
>>121548651What's your opinion on Danse
>>121546791If you don't like the first half of OKC you just might not like music
>>121548793It's crazy how good the first half of OKC is. Airbag and Let Down are possibly the GOAT rock songs.
>>121548706spotty but overhated. Meet the Light Child and Lablakely Dress are two of their all time greatest songs and I wish more of the short tracks were up to that standard, all the long ones are good.
>>121548829I couldn't really get into it, it's too meandering without much payoff. Maybe I'll revisit it, but it doesn't have the je ne sais quoi that Spirit does and it doesn't have the coomfy of Campfire Songs or Sung Tongs, nor does it have the sovl of Here Comes The Indian. It just seems like a weird aside that goes nowhere in their early discography.
>>121548888yeah it's definitely their weakest pre-CHz album, but that's not saying a ton given everything else is great. the concept and aesthetic are really good but it starts off really weak and then stays patchy throughout, it never really feels like they put something cohesive together other than stringing 10 minutes post rockish tracks between throwaway interlude ones. an EP of longform stuff from Meet the Light Child through Lablakely probably would've worked way better. the tribal aspect is incredible when done well but most of the time it isn't, there's not really any reason to listen to something like Penguin Penguin or A Little White Singer over Hollinndagain. even the pop songs on it (Essplode and whatever the last one is called) are just Spirit but less good. it's kind of obvious they were still figuring out the sound that'd end up perfected in the Hollinndagain era, but when recording they stuck with a primitive set of tracks from early on and then never recorded the peak of that style in studio before moving on to HCtI (eg. how the pumpkin trilogy never ended up on anything other than bootleg compilations.)
>>121547893yall got dnb over there? if not it's not a dealbreaker but still.
>>121546791this chart is literally older than I was when I first saw it over a decade ago and people are still arguing over iti'm terrified i'm about to see CLT, biotroll and lazare posting in here
>>121548812Exit Music -> Let Down -> Karma Police might be the best three track run in rock historyAnd that run doesn't even contain the best song on the album
sad millennials: the thread
